Project Cycle Management Training Handbook - CFCU

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Project Cycle Management Training Handbook
5.4 Summary
� It is common for the logframe approach to be applied during the
preparation of a project. However, the logframe approach remains
a powerful management tool for analysis of project design, as
well as for the process of project design itself.
� The purpose in applying the LFA to a document is to identify
weaknesses or gaps in the project’s design. These gaps will relate
to the RELEVANCE, FEASIBILITY or SUSTAINABILITY
of the project.
� The PCM training programme offers two tools for assessing
project proposals: i) the Guide for Assessment, which is intended
for in-depth analysis of project proposals prior to the formulation
phase; and ii) the Quality Assessment Tool, which is intended
for quality checking of draft financing proposals prior to their
submission to the relevant financing committee.
� The Guide to Assessment contains six instructions that provide a
framework for analysing the coherence and comprehensiveness of
a project proposal. The approach can be likened to deconstructing
and reconstructing the project design, in order to identify the gaps
and inconsistencies, and thereby to identify questions for
inclusion in terms of reference for a feasibility study.
� The Quality Assessment Tool offers a checklist approach that
breaks down the key concepts of relevance, feasibility and
sustainability into simple questions, and provides a framework for
rapidly identifying information gaps in the Financing Proposal.
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